After connecting a device with a serial port with the computer via the Prolific PL2303 cable, some users have received the following error message: Please install the ...

To communicate with a device connected via universal serial bus (USB), a computer needs the driver, not just for the device itself, but also for the USB controller. Microsoft Windows uses USB ...

In my last column [see LJ December 2002], we covered the serial layer in the 2.5 (hopefully soon to be 2.6) kernel tree. We mentioned in passing that a USB-to-serial driver layer in the kernel helps ...

Over the last two weeks I published an article reference the USB to serial converter see Project Usb to serial converter http://edn.com/project/mark_harrington/usb-to ...

Keyspan has updated its Mac OS X driver for the USB to serial adapters. Version 1.2 of the USB software fixes issues with the Classic environment crashing when quitting and some glitches with Global ...

I've got a Xircom 4 port (2x USB, Parallel & Serial) hub, and Windows 2k drivers.<P>The USB and Parallel port are recognized by XP, but when I try to load the W2k usb to serial driver, XP informs me ...

Every operating system places requirements on device drivers. Here's a quick tour of the Windows CE rulebook. Microsoft Windows CE is a modular and scalable operating system that supports a variety of ...

For years I have been wondering when Cisco would activate the USB ports on their devices. I have been hoping for all kinds of USB functionality to routers, switches, firewalls but Cisco has been slow ...

In the last two installments of Driving Me Nuts [LJ August 2002 and October 2002], we covered the tty layer, explaining how to create a minimal tty driver. We also explained some of the various ioctls ...